What lessons learned from your sports-playing days do you use and leverage daily in the farm equipment business? What traits and skills do you find come more naturally by those who competed on the court and fields, even if many years ago?
Rocky Mountain Equipment Chief Sales & Operations Officer Jim Wood talks about how the dealership managed through price increases, inventory shortages and changing customer buying habits.
Last year brought a series of hurdles for dealers to jump through. Customer demand was up, but there wasn’t much to sell them. Prices went up and so did interest rates.
If you could go back a year ago today, knowing everything that would unfold in farming and the economy in 2020, what would you have done differently in your business?
I’m asking for your help. Last month, I wrote an article on “3 Questions to Root Out Complacency.” In that piece, we posed 3 questions to farm equipment dealers on motivating staff to achieve greater heights for themselves, your customers and the company. I’m pulling together the compilation of answers from you and your industry peers, but I need your help with some additional perspective. I’m hoping you’ll take a moment to weigh in on 3 questions.
Today, Titan Machinery is North America’s largest farm equipment dealership group. In 2006, the group was selected as Farm Equipment’s Dealership of the Year. At that point, Titan owned and operated 29 dealer locations.
With prognosticators continuing to forecast lower wholegood sales throughout 2017, and no significant uptick in such sales before 2019, it is imperative that dealers intent on surviving this protracted downturn rethink their view of the wholegoods department. Impacting this transformation will be the fact that most of the manufacturers, if not all of the majors, will be putting pressure on their dealer organization to significantly increase dealership market share, says Dr. Jim Weber.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we take a look at CNH Industrial’s goals for growing its precision business by 2030.
Built on 90 years of expertise, Yetter Farm Equipment leads the agriculture industry in designing effective and innovative equipment for residue management, seedbed preparation, precision fertilizer placement, harvest attachments, strip-tillage, and more.
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